Machine for cooking shelled peanuts, &amp;c.



c. o. R033. MAGHINE FOR COOKING SHELLED PEANUTS, u. Y

AEPLGATION ILED JUNE B, 190B.

@25395 Patented Nwl, 1909..

CARL 0. ROE, OF ViEsLEY, IOVA.

MA PENE QEVCDUKING SHELLED PEANUTS, eine.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application lcd June 8, 1908. Serial No. 437,356.

To all wIlL-0m it may concern:

lie it known that l, Cain, U. Ron, a citizen. of the United States, residing l Ji/lesley, in the county ot Kossutli and State ot iowa, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cooking Siielled Peanuts, I.t2-c., of which the :following a specification.

'.lhe invention relates to a machine for oiled peanuts, etc. llect otf the present inve iiion is to provide. a simple and inexpensive inachine, designed for cooking and similarly treating nuts in preparing salted peanuts, blanched almonds,` etc., and adapted to rapidly cool; shelled peanuts in hot grease or analogous liquid Without stirring the conlents of the. deviceA A further obiectof the invention is to provide a device oi this' character adapted to enable such cooking to be performed with a minimum amount of grease, so that when the liquid rapidly becomes bitter and dirty and has to be thrown away, the loss will be as small as possible. i

With these and other objects invieiv, the

.invention consists in the construction and and minor details ot construction, within.

the scope ot the claims, .may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrilicing any o'fj the advantages of the iiivention.

in the drawingz-Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view. of a machine, construct ed 'i accordai'ico with this invention. Fig'. 2 is a transverse .sectional view. `Fig. 3 is a detail plan View of one end of the machine, illustrating the construction for detachably mounting the operating shaft. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view on the line 1 -4 of Fig.

Like numerals of reference designate cor'- rcsponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

l designates a casing, constructed of sheet metal, or other suitable material and composed of sides and ends and having a. rounded bottom portion 2, arranged concentric with an inner rotary cylindrical ,receptacle 3, so as to reduce to a minimum the quantity of liquid necessary for cooking the peanuts or 9other material. The casing, which is oblong in plan view, is provided at the top with coici's t and 5, forming an approx1- mately semicylindrical top and connected at'their outer edges with the body portion of the casingr by hinges G. covers curved and is provided with approximately quadrant-shaped end pieces, and the cover 4 has a longitudinal dan e 7 at its inner or upper edge. The longitudinal flange extends beneath the upperedge 'of the other cover 5 and closes thel joint between Ythe two covers, which are 'locked their closed position by means of a hook 8' and an eye 9. The hinged coversare also equipped at their lower or hinged edges with inner longitudinal guards 10, consisting of curved flanges formed integral with the covers and extending inwardly and downwardly, when the covers are closed, and adapted to extend over and cover the. hinged joints between the covers and the sides of the casing, when the former are open. These guards, which extend longitudinally of the covers, are adapted to conduct the drip back intothe machine, when thecylindrical reeptacle is taken out of the casing toreniove its contents.

The casing is supported by vertical sides l1, constructed of sheet metal and secured at their upper edges to the up er portions ot the sides of the casing and extendin downward to the supporting surface an having horizontal flanges 12, formed by bending their loivcr edges or portions outwardly, clearly illustrated in F ig. 2 of the drawing to provide feet. The lower portions ot the vertical sides are connected by bottom cross pieces 13, secured at their ter ininals to the inner faces of the sides 1l and connected at an intermediate point to the bottom ot the casing. Theterminals of the bottoni cross pieces are bent u ward and are' preferably soldered to the si es 11, and the.

central ortions of the bottoni-cross pieces Each of the Y are simi arly fastened to the casing, but any other suitable means maybe employed for securin thebottoin cross pieces to the casing an to the sides, as will be readily understood. The sides forming sF upports Afor the casing operate to confine the ieat at the bottom of the casing. The spaces between the bottom of the casing andthe vertical sides are open at the ends of tht machine.

The inner rotary receptacle preferably consists of. sheet metal heads 14 and 15 an a woven Wire body portion 16, secured to inf nuts in the preparation of sa ted wardly extending annular flanges 17 of the said heads. The interstitial apertures of the woven wire permit the grease to pass readily through the inner receptacle, and they enable the contents of the inner receptacle to be thoroughly subjected to the cooking action of the hot grease contained within the casing, but the body portion of the inner receptacle may be constructed in any other desired manner to provide the necessary openings for the passage of the grease. The body portion of the receptacle is provided with an opening 18, and it has opposite guides 19 located at the sides of the opening and receiving a slide 20, equipped with a handle 21 and adapted to be moved longitudinally of the inner receptacle to aHord access to the contents of the same and also t'o cover the opening 18. The inner receptacle is also provided with a handle 22, located adjacent to one end of the inner receptacle and adapted to facilitate the removal of the inner receptacle from the machine.

The heads 14 and 15 of the inner receptacle are secured to a shaft 23, having projecting terminal gudgeons or journals detachably arranged in open bearings 24 of the end walls of the casing. The inner re eeptacle is also equi pcd at one end with a gear 25, preferably ormed integral with the head 15 and meshing with a pinion 26 of an operating shaft 27. The operating shaft 27, which is provided with an outer crank 28, is detaehably journaled in a sectional bearing 29 having a hinged upper section 30,'

adapted to open to permit the removal of the shaft preparatory to taking the cylinder out of the casing. The upper section 30 of the bearing 29 is connected at one end with the lower section or portion of the bearing by means of a hinge 3l, and the other end is slotted to receive a screw 32, extending upward from the lower section and provided with a thumb nut 33, which clam s the yupper hinged section 30 in its closed7 positioii. The crank 2S is preferably provided with a handle 3l of wood, or other suitable material, and when the shaft is rotated motion is communicated to the cylinder through the gearing, the rotary movement of the inner reteptaele obviating the necessity of stirring its contentsand also serving to thoroughly and uniformly subject its contents to the action of the liquid employed in treating or otherwise cooking the material. In practice lard, butter, cocoanut oil, or other cooking oil will be employed for Cookin shelled peaeanuts, but the machine may be employed or a variety of analogous uses, and hot water may be employed for soaking almonds to remove the skins thereof.

The sectional bearing, which is located exteriorly of the casing, is supported by a horizontal brace 35', extending transversely of the machine in spaced relation with the end of the same and having terminal portions 36, suitably secured to the adjacent end wall of the casing. The operating shaft 27 is' Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A machine of the class described including a casing, an inner removable receptacle, and a cover hinged to the casing and provided at its hinged edge with a continuous longitudinally disposed transversely curved fange or guard spaced from and spanning the hinge joint of the cover and extending downwardly and inwardly into the receptacle beyond the hinge joint when the cover is open, so as to direct the drip back into the machine when the inner re ceptacle is removed therefrom.

2. A machine of the class described including a casing, an inner removable receptacle, covers hinged to the casing at o osite sides thereof and provided at their inged edges with inwardly extending longitudinal guards or flanges formed integral with the covers and curved transversely and spanning the hinge joints of the covers, said guards or flanges extending downward into the casing when the covers are open so as to direct the drip back. into the machine when the inner receptacle is removed..

3. A machine of the class described including a casing provided with inner open bearings, an inner rotary receptacle provided at its ends with journals arranged in the said bearings, said receptacle being also provided -with 'a gear,l a sectional bearinof mounted on the casingv'and having a hinged section-or member, a shaft journaled in the sectional bearing and provided with a pinion meshing with the gear of the inner rece tacle, and fastening means for securing t e` hinged section of the bearing.

In testimony, that'I claim therforegong as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' l CARL O. ROE.

Witnesses LoUis H. RAsMUsoN, GEORGE B. HALL. 

